Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Despite our efforts to reduce carbon pollution, we need to ensure Vancouver is prepared for the impacts of a changing global climate.

What is climate change adaptation?

Adapting to climate change means understanding what climate we are likely to experience in the future, and creating proactive plans that take advantage of opportunities and prepare for impacts. This is different than mitigation, which refers to our efforts to limit climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.

What's happening

Planning Vancouver Together to 2050 and beyond

We’ve launched the process to develop the Vancouver (City-wide) Plan that will guide our city to 2050 and beyond.

Question seven

By City of Vancouver

What action(s) can you take reduce individual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions?

Answer seven

By City of Vancouver

You can compost your food waste, eat more vegetarian meals, insulate your home and reduce energy leaks, and use transit, cycle, or walk more. These are a few ways that you can curb your emissions and help slow sea level rise.

Future changes to our climate and environment

By 2050, we are expecting hotter, drier summers, wetter falls and springs, and warmer winters. Extreme weather events will be more frequent and intense, and sea level rise is anticipated to be 1 meter by 2100.